Full Description
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, residents of Alma, a village in Kyrgyzstan, were faced with many challenges. Economic crisis and the elimination of welfare support forced an entire generation to become labour migrants in Russia. Those 'left behind' were sustained by migrants' remittances and charitable activities, but at a cost. As villagers built upon existing kinship structures to create new practices of mutual aid on the lines of Islamic teaching, they suffered from the 'dark side of kinship.' This book shares experiences of people in Alma and its Moscow-based diaspora and how they created a 'moral economy of migration' that became territorialised as kindship was de-territorialised.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Central Asian Family in Historical Context: The Bright Side and the Dark Side of Kinship
Chapter 2. Silent Voices and a Lack of Parental Authority: The Dark Side of Kinship
Chapter 3. Dark Side of Kinship and Uncertain Marriages: Shame, Temporary Nike and Divorce
Chapter 4. Performance and Competition: House Building and Migrants' Care of Elderly Parents
Chapter 5. Almagrad: The Mobilization of Translocal Lineage-Based Community in Moscow
Chapter 6. 'Doing Good Aid' Within Translocal Lineages
Chapter 7. Silence, Performance: International Migration, Internal Migration and Village-Level Infrastructural Development
Conclusion: The Bright Side and the Dark Side of Kinship
References
Index
